Hey all,
First WIP over here. First few posts will be for catch-up pics (been working on it slooooowly for about a year and a half).
I love building [big] dioramas with structural elements I haven't seen tried before (love building architectural models, too). I have always wanted to do the cool red port from ROJ with all of the ships diving in (or fleeing out). I started designing this over a year ago, spending about four months figuring out scale and how to design a multi-layered approach to building it. I work on it slowly (like 1-2 hours a week) with my work/life schedule, but have come quite far. Hoping to finish this around this time next year.
Long story short - I'm doing it in 1/144 and it is about four feet wide, three feet high (with the partial laser tower), and will have a removable "port" top that should be around three feet by four feet (so I can get everything through common doorways). I got a kickstart to actually doing it at a local store that was closing... I got myself a big heavy welded metal rack for $25! I saw potential in it and away I went... now to catch you up on pics.
Full Project catchup pics are here:
Oh yeah, and it WILL be lit... ;-)
Started as this:
Turned into this:
Recently was this:
Currently working on lighting tubes in tunnel:
Full Project catchup pics are here: